He wears drab breeches and gaiters, and a respectable square-tailed ancient black coat. From Wordnik.com. [The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English] Reference
Valour in square-tailed coat eyes Beauty in Greek sandals, and kindles by her glances: Down with Jacobinism!. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
At another time the creatures may be of a large cockshafer sort, or a dreadful square-tailed thing that is especially ominous. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson] Reference
My surfcraft that day was an alaia (pronounced ah-LIE-ah), a replica of the thin, round-nosed, square-tailed boards ridden in pre-20th-century Hawaii. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Silver had two guns slung about him, one before and one behind -- besides the great cutlass at his waist, and a pistol in each pocket of his square-tailed coat. From Wordnik.com. [Treasure Island] Reference
Silver had two guns slung about him -- one before and one behind -- besides the great cutlass at his waist and a pistol in each pocket of his square-tailed coat. From Wordnik.com. [Treasure Island] Reference
They are strong-legged, square-tailed, terrestrial birds, generally able to perch, have probing beaks, and build the most perfect mud or stick nests, or burrow in the ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist in La Plata] Reference
As soon as we had pitched our tents, we cut up the hind quarters of the emu into slices for drying; but we had to guard it by turns, whip in hand, from a host of square-tailed kites (Milvus isiurus). From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845] Reference
On the gray and muddy sidewalk the procession was very conspicuous -- the blue dress of the bride, the canary-colored breeches of one of the men, Madinier's square-tailed coat -- all gave a carnivallike air to the group. From Wordnik.com. [L'Assommoir] Reference
The maister gloomed, stroked his chin, and looked down, knowing, weel-a-wat, that he had lost his bread-winner, then gave his head a nod, nod -- thrusting both his hands down to the bottom lining of the pockets of his long square-tailed jockey coat. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith] Reference
Council of Four he wore a square-tailed coat of very good, thick black broadcloth, and on his hands, which were never uncovered, gray suede gloves; his boots were of thick black leather, very good, but of a country style, and sometimes fastened in front, curiously, by a buckle instead of laces. From Wordnik.com. [The Economic Consequences of the Peace] Reference
Young men habited not in black-shag Carmagnole spencer, but in superfine habit carre or spencer with rectangular tail appended to it; 'square-tailed coat,' with elegant antiguillotinish specialty of collar; 'the hair plaited at the temples,' and knotted back, long-flowing, in military wise: young men of what they call the. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
It was a fleeting fashion of the day, but it added a certain picturesqueness to a horseman, and seemed far enough from the times that produced the square-tailed frock-coat which the mountaineer wore, constructed of brown jeans, the skirts of which stood stiffly out on each side of the saddle, and gave him, with his broad-brimmed hat, a certain Quakerish aspect. From Wordnik.com. [The Phantoms Of The Foot-Bridge 1895] Reference
He wore large cravats and square-tailed coats. From Wordnik.com. [The Country House] Reference
Fifteen bird species are generally regarded as being representative of dry evergreen forest: red-throated crested guineafowl (Guttera edouardi kathleenae), barred long-tailed cuckoo (Cercococcyx olivinus), Ross’s turaco (Musophaga rossae), golden-rumped tinkerbird (Pogoniulus bilineatus), white-chested tinkerbird (P. makawai), Banis’s greenbul (Phyllastrephus cabanisi), purple-throated cuckoo-shrike (Camephaga quiscalina), Boulton’s batis (Batis margeritae), African crested flycatcher (Trochocercus cyanomelas), square-tailed drongo (Dicrurus ludwigii), blackfronted bushshrike (Telophorus nigrifrons), Perrin’s bushshrike (T. viridis), olive sunbird (Nectarinia olivacea), forest weaver (Ploceus bicolor) and black-tailed waxbill (Estrilda perreini). From Wordnik.com. [Zambezian Cryptosepalum dry forests] Reference
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